Baby Guppies

[FiremanSam]

G'day All,


I cleaned my 3 foot tank today, while I was doing this I decided it was time to clean the canister filter out as well. To my surprise I found the 2 Khulie loaches I was missing living in there quite happily. They seem to have even got a little bigger. I wouldn't have thought they would have been able to survive in there. What I also found blew me away was a baby guppy. I tried very hard to scope the guppy out but leave the crud in but in all the commotion I managed to squash the poor little bugger. It managed to survive in the filter until I came along .

My good news though after cleaning the tank and plugging everything back in I found that I have another baby guppy that has been hiding out quite nicely in among some plants. They little guy is about 1/4 inch big. Should I try and separate him or leave him in since he has managed to survive this long?

 

[millym]

hi
poor baby guppy!!! as for the survivor it really depends what other fish you have in your tank. is there much that could manage to fit a 1/4 inch guppy in its mouth?? do you have a baby tank up & running you could move the little one to?? the chances are its survived this long it will prob be ok.

 

[NoRp]

depends how badly you want to keep him
id say hes at risk until like 1/3 - 1/2 an inch ( depending on what else in the tank)
if u do decied to take him out try not to squish him =]
and i once changed my tank and in the bucket of sand i scooped out there was half an inch of water on top
and to my surprise there was a babie platy in there lol..
the mum had deid over 2 weeks before and i didnt know she had given birth.

 

[fuzz16]

personally i would let nature takes its course
theyll always be more, and its always its exciting having babys!

 

[kpintheshed]

letting nature takes its course is good but can be derverstating. i let nature take its course and there 9 babie guppies left, few weeks later bang there all eaten. some did servive 4 along time about 3 weeks but got eaten. i thing u should maintain, theres nothing that feels better than knowing that they are safe.